Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1980-1999

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The average score is 17 of 20

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1987	Ronald Reagan tells Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in this city	Berlin	100%
1983	This musician performs the moonwalk for the first time	Michael Jackson	100%
1991	The Cold War officially ends when the government in this nation dissolves	Soviet Union	99%
1985	This time travel movie starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released	Back to the Future	98%
1997	James Cameron releases this romantic disaster film, one of the highest grossing of all time	Titanic	96%
1990	This president raises taxes after previously promising "no new taxes"	George H.W. Bush	94%
1994	This football star is put on trial as a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend	O.J. Simpson	93%
1992	Riots break out in this city after the police officers who beat Rodney King are acquitted	Los Angeles	91%
1998	During his impeachment trial, Bill Clinton claims he "did not have sexual relations" with this woman	Monica Lewinsky	89%
1996	This rapper is killed after being shot in a drive-by in Las Vegas	Tupac Shakur	88%
1981	The CDC releases the first reports of this disease	AIDS	85%
1986	This Space Shuttle explodes after launch, killing it's entire crew	Challenger	85%
1999	12 students and one teacher die after two teenagers shoot up this Littleton, Colorado high school	Columbine	84%
1995	Timothy McVeigh kills 168 people when he blows up a federal building in this city	Oklahoma City	78%
1980	57 people die when this volcano erupts in Washington	Mount St. Helens	75%
1989	The Exxon Valdez spills thousands of barrels of oil after running aground in this state	Alaska	74%
1988	178 Americans die when a plane is blown up by Libyan terrorists over this country	Scotland	74%
1993	An ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound in this city leads to a 51 day siege	Waco	71%
1984	This candidate loses in the largest electoral college landslide to Ronald Reagan	Walter Mondale	56%
1982	The Supreme Court decides this company is a monopoly and has it broken up	AT&T	50%